Conditional Acceptance Returns for Jews

Updated: 2025.10.06 15D ago 4 sources
Halevi argues that the era of near‑automatic elite acceptance of Jews post‑Holocaust has ended. On elite campuses, social acceptance is now contingent on repudiating Israel, resembling historical pressures on Jews to renounce core identity for status. — This reframes campus antisemitism as a structural gatekeeping shift with implications for party alignments, university policy, and minority‑coalition politics.

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How New York Democrats Came to Embrace Anti-Zionism
Joseph Burns, Susan Greene 2025.10.06 60% relevant
The piece frames top New York Democrats endorsing an openly anti‑Zionist candidate (Zohran Mamdani) as normalization of anti‑Zionism inside the party, echoing the idea that elite acceptance of Jewish identity is increasingly contingent on repudiating Israel.
The End of the Post-Holocaust Era
Arnold Kling 2025.08.18 100% relevant
Quote: 'what the progressives have done to American Jewry is restore conditional acceptance... you could get by... if you were prepared to repudiate Israel among your friends.'
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Arnold Kling 2025.08.15 50% relevant
Adam Louis‑Klein’s claim that a uniquely harsh moral standard is applied to Israel ('ethnostate' as scandal) echoes the thesis that elite acceptance of Jews has become contingent on repudiating core identity markers.
Jewish Elite Students' Sudden Alienation from the Left
Eric Kaufmann 2025.07.20 88% relevant
FIRE survey results show Jewish Ivy League students' 'very liberal' identification collapsing (40% to 13%) and self-censorship jumping (13% to 35%) after encampments, indicating elite acceptance is now contingent on repudiating Israel—direct evidence of conditional acceptance dynamics on campus.
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